 ... to be trodden on, and fed upon. Its cheerfulness, in that it seems to exult under all kinds of violence and suffering. You roll it, and it is stronger the next day ; you mow it, and it multiplies its shoots, as if it were grateful ; you tread upon...  Very successful! - Page 185by baroness Rosina Doyle Bulwer- Lytton - 1856Full view - About this book
 | 1858 - 708 pages
...it, and it multiplies its shoots, as if it were grateful ; you tread upon it, and it only sends up richer perfume. Spring comes, and it rejoices with...strength. Winter comes, and, though it will not mock its fellow plants by growing then, it will not pine and mourn, and turn colourless or leafless as they.... | |
 | 1876 - 832 pages
...Spring comea, and it rejoices with all the earth, glowing with variegated flowers,waving in soft depths of fruitful strength. Winter comes, and though it will not mock its fellow plants by growing then, it will not repine and mourn and turn colourless and leafless as they.... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1856 - 450 pages
...it, and it multiplies its shoots, as if it were grateful ; you tread upon it, and it only sends up richer perfume. Spring comes, and it rejoices with...strength. "Winter comes, and though it will not mock its fellow plants by growing then, it will not pine and mourn, and turn colourless or leafless as they.... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1856 - 452 pages
...it, and it multiplies its shoots, as if it were grateful ; you tread upon it, and it only sends up richer perfume. Spring comes, and it rejoices with all the earth, — glowing with variegated flaine of flowers, — waving in soft depth of fruitful strength. Winter comes, and though it will... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1857 - 336 pages
...it, and it multiplies its shoots, as if it were grateful ; you tread upon it, and it only sends up richer perfume. Spring comes, and it rejoices with...strength. Winter comes, and, though it will not mock its fellow plants by growing then, it will not pine and mourn, and turn colourless or leafless as they.... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1859 - 504 pages
...it, and it multiplies its shoots, as if it were grateful ; you tread upon it, and it only sends up richer perfume. Spring comes, and it rejoices with...strength. Winter comes, and though it will not mock its fellow plants by growing then, it will not pine and mourn, and turn colorless or leafless as they.... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1859 - 504 pages
...mow it, and it multiplies its shoots, as if it were grateful; you tread upon it, and it only sends up richer perfume. Spring comes, and it rejoices with...all the earth,— glowing with variegated flame of flowers,—waving in soft depth of fruitful strength. Winter comes, and thpngh it will not mock its... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1863 - 438 pages
...it, and it only sends up richer perfume. Spring comes, and it rejoices with all the earth—glowing with variegated flame of flowers —waving in soft...strength. Winter comes, and though it will not mock its fellow plants by growing then, it will not pine and mourn, and turn colourless or leafless as they.... | |
 | London metrop. tabernacle - 1869 - 584 pages
...it, and it multiplies its shoots, as if it were grateful ; you tread upon it, and it only sends up richer perfume. Spring comes, and it rejoices with...strength. Winter comes, and though it will not mock its fellow plants by rwmg then, it will not pine, and mourn, and turn colourless or leafless as they, is... | |
 | John Dennis - 1865 - 344 pages
...it, and it multiplies its shoots, as if it were grateful ; you tread upon it, and it only sends up richer perfume. Spring comes, and it rejoices with...• Winter comes, and though it will not mock its fellow plants by growing then, it will not pine and mourn, and turn colourless or leafless as they.... | |
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